Mary (and others),

Yes, that sounds logical and was one of my concerns too.  Even though my
pre--reformat tests showed the hardware was good.... I was still skeptical.

So......  after getting the system back up and running, I ran the Nuts&Bolts
RAM tests in continuous mode for over 5 hours.  Then I ran the WinCheckIt
RAM test and CPU/system board test(continuously) overnight.

Both programs test L1 and L2 caches, as well as system RAM.   There was not
a single error in over 15 hours of nonstop testing.

...... go figure..... <g>

----- Original Message -----
From: Mary Wolden <[log in to unmask]>
> > From: Jim Meagher <[log in to unmask]>
> > >
> > >A special "tip 'o the hat" to Bob Wright for his suggestion.  When I
> > >disabled the Internal Cache on my CPU everything ran smoothly.
> > >
> > >
> >
>
> I am also interested in this solution.  I had thought that if you could
not
> install Windows and disabling the Internal cache allowed you to install
> Windows that the Internal cache was bad.
>

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